Pro-President Obama super PAC slump continues

The pro-Barack Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is still struggling to keep up with GOP super PACs preparing to unleash millions of dollars in independent advertisements.

Priorities USA Action raised $1.6 million in April, according to federal records released late Sunday. It’s the smallest haul the group has pulled in since the meager $59,000 the group raised in January.

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The group raked in $3 million less than the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future raised in April, even as the GOP group reported its worst fundraising month so far this year.

The bulk of Priorities USA Action’s cash in April came from labor groups. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association PAC contributed $1 million; another $250,000 came from the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Pipe Fitting Industry. Both union checks came on April 30, the last day of the filing period.

Including the two labor groups, the super PAC received only nine donations of $10,000 or more in April. Top donors included Joseph Kiani, chairman and CEO of Masimo Corp.; Ariel Capital CEO John Rogers; and television executive Michael King.

Priorities USA Action is also trailing the pro-Romney group in cash reserves, even after the GOP group focused much of its money early on in knocking out primary opponents. The Democratic group reported having $4.7 million stockpiled at the end of last month, compared to Restore Our Future’s $8.2 million.

Another GOP super PAC powerhouse, American Crossroads, reported having more than $24 million in the bank at the end of March. The group is expected to release its April tally before Sunday’s deadline.

Priorities USA Action spent $1.9 million in April, with the bulk of that cash — $1.5 million — going into anti-Romney ads.

Readers' Comments (34)

President Obama already has a super-PAC that gives Millions of Dollars worth of free campaign support every day, 24/7/365. It's called ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The L.A. Times, Hollywood and all of those smaller papers just purchased by Billionaire Hypocrite Warren Buffett. Who needs to spend money when all that favorable press for Mr. Obama gets out there for free?

The amount of money reported from Super Pacs going to Obama makes absolute sense. Unions (groups who want hand outs and something for as little work as they can do- hence LOSERS ) are not the majority of people in this great country. Most Americans are hard working, and have deep moral and spiritual convictions which fly in the face of the Democrat party which represents everything to the contrary. In the end this will reflect the amount received.

Isn't that interesting. A sitting U.S. president can't out raise the challenger. Speaks volumes about the esteem with which insiders view President Obama. Also, interesting that the only one forking over big bucks are labor unions. As for those fools from Masimo and Ariel Capital, if Obama wins, they deserve exactly what they get, especially Masimo. Anyone from a med technology company who supports Obama has got to be crazy.

Ahh, the beauty of our democracy in action. You don't need to have the best ideas or track record, you just have to convince billionaires and their humble servants to fund your negative ad campaigns against the other guy. I would love to see these PACs and Super PACs go away. Public funded elections. Run on your message. True democracy. It'll never happen. Republicans would call it socialist.

This focus on Obama's "Super Pac" is meaningless. His campaign fund is huge. And the funds in the Union Pacs are much much bigger, and this article doesn't mention them at all.

This article is designed to give sympathy to the President to make it appear as if he is being outspent by Republicans, And that is totally false. Obama's campaign fund, and the DNC, and the Pacs, have more combined money that their counterparts on the right. The left has almost double. And that doesn't include the unions spending plans.

The media, and the Dems, also want to hype this now to give Obama the "underdog" appeal (which he does not deserve since he uses the advantages of incumbency and the free travel to fundraisers enjoyed with AF-1). It also gives him a "narrative" to explain his loss, should that occur.

This article is purely propaganda on a site known for its support of the DNC and Obama.

Barack (insert middle name here) Obama is taking a slow high-dollar ride into oblivion. There ain't enough money in the world to re-elect this brain-dead ideologue. Obama is a despicable failure of a man who embraces the utterly failed ideologies of Marxism. Long ago Obama sacrificed his humanity on the altar of failed Marxism. Good riddance to Barack Obama and his grasping, violent Marxist acolytes. For a big clue about the kind of power-brokers who support Obama, please search RICHARD TRUMKA EDDIE YORK.

The Republicans have another huge advantage over Obama besides money: a deep bench. For example, look at the Republican governors, most of whom are doing a fairly decent job. Then there are the Republican candidates who lost out to Romney. As he gains the Big Mo, more of them will be speaking louder. Look at all the Republican women in office, and running for office. They'll be making some noise. Then there's the issue of Walker winning the recall, That's a really big deal, folks. In addition, I look for Sarah to be out there hammering away on Obama. On the Democrat side, who do they have willing to campaign for Obama other than the usual suspects? Jerry Brown of CA? I don't think so. Senator Shumer? Nice try. Cabinet members like Sibelius and Napolitano? Yeah, right. Al Sharpton? Al Gore? Al Franken? Al-Abidid? Of course it's always nice to hear from the gay lobby. Gay ! Gay! Gay! Works for me. Of course we can always count on "Crazy Joe" Biden to be out there giving it is his all. "Obama's decision to kill Osama bin Laden was the most courageous decision made by any American president in the last 500 years!" (Smooth, Joe. Real smooth. Now go take your pills) But perhaps the largest advantage Republicans will have as we get closer to the election is this: the unremitting hostility of the mainstream media and the Hollywood lefties. The more conservatives get hammered by the likes of Sean Penn, Rosanne Barr, David Letterman, Rachel Maddow, Steponallofus, and all the rest of the loonies, the better they look to real, ordinary people. It ain't just about the money.

Nice try, Fox, but how can the media write all those glowing stories about all those wonderful things Obama has done, when he hasn't done squat? He hasn't made anything better, only worse. We're spending more money. Stupid wars are still being fought. Obama acts more like Hugo Chavez every day. The fact that his vice president forced him out of the closet hasn't helped him any. By all indications, even Obama's wife doesn't like him all that much. She fakes it pretty good, but only because she gets her own fleet of jets and limos whenever she feels like taking another vacation, courtesy of hardworking taxpayers who can't afford a round of miniature golf. Hey! I know! Why doesn't some powerful Hollywood producer do a big propaganda film on how the courageous, all-seeing, all-knowing, Dear Leader Obama against almost insurmountable odds, killed Osama? How cool would that be? Quick! Somebody get on the phone to Harvey Weinstein!